Major issues with v. 2!

In v1, I used VLC to play all sorts of videos full screen and they were smooth where other programs were choppy. In v2, VLC is like others and is choppy. Version 2 showed in Activity Monitor major CPU use of the Window Manager that wasn't present before. Something about the particular mechanism by which VLC runs video and relates to the Mac OS system is fundamentally changed, and that is for the worse, at least for my Core2 Mac Mini. I'm sticking with v1.

Be warned: 1.5.1 no longer works with OS 10.6.5! Seems they're designing it to ONLY work with systems that contain the Mac App Store. This is quite frustrating to me as I like Things but I am very wary of the App Store direction (enough to question whether I will buy another Apple computer or not). Fact is, Things is the best option for what it does. But I might not be able to stick around to wait the (years based on their history) it takes for them to add some basic features like hierarchical project tasks or Boolean sorting. In fact, I think this is where I get off. I am not going to buy into Apple's Digital Restrictions Management monopoly-power-grad Mac App Store nonsense.

Sweet! Change the log-in background! I've always wanted to do that, I hate that it is stuck at default!

This is an absolutely incredible program with a superb business model. The pricing is accessible to everyone and there are absolutely no weird copy-protection limitations so it will work if you have to change computers on short notice or whatever.

REAPER has superb pitch and time adjusting capacity, amazingly flexible MIDI routing and lots, lots more.

Uniquely, it has searching by text for things. Need a plugin? No need to scroll through tons of menus, just start typing the name. Need a preference or action adjustment or whatever, just search for what you want. Plus the user forum is extremely active and people are always around to help. There's a thorough manual too. But the basics are easy to figure out right away. Almost everything is customizable. I didn't like the scrolling behavior at first and I was able to change it to my preference.

They update all the time, and buying a license gives you free updates for the current and the next major version numbers. They don't change versions unwarranted either. They've had dozens of substantial updates since version 3 was released.

The flow is sensible but professional. The only thing this lacks is tons of pre-included loops, but if you want to be recording your own music you don't necessarily want that junk anyway.

While Logic, Digital Performer, Ableton Live, Protools etc. all have great features, REAPER competes fully alongside those with many superior elements and a much more fair business model worthy of support. Many professional studios have actually abandoned those other programs in favor of REAPER.

The only comment here is now 5 years old and outdated. I think it still does not do external MIDI (though I didn't verify), and the interface does have some carry over from older days, but it is really excellent software and has been updated, including the interface, over the years.

I tried installing and it always goes smooth until 95% and then nothing happens, it'll just sit like that forever. I had to uninstall and then I lost Flash entirely. I was able to get it working again by using Time Machine to go back to the older version.

Everything else on my computer is fine. And I checked permissions. I even tried with no programs running, with a safe-boot, with uninstalling then restarting before installing again...

Any suggestions?